The Future of Science panel at the Institute for the Future - Connecting researchers with information - and unlocking it!

These were some slides I prepared for an invited talk at the Institute for the Future on the future of science

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1. Connecting researchers with information - and unlocking it! William Gunn Head of Academic Outreach @mrgunn
2. Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates and software developers from... ...backed by co-founders and former executives of: Supported by:
3. “The state of knowledge of the human race is sitting in the scientists’ computers, and is currently not shared […] We need to get it unlocked so we can tackle those huge problems.”
4. Connecting Scholars in the Cloud • Incompatible licenses prevent remixing and sharing necessary for new insights. • Research is a social activity, but the tools and the data aren’t. • Capture the latent info in their process!
5. ...and aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley extracts research data… Mendeley makes science more collaborative and transparent: Install Mendeley Desktop
6. Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time
7. Article statistics show impact & recommend papers
8. Apps are being developed that mash up Mendeley data with: Chemical compounds Locations Alzheimer’s research Grant funding Twitter streams Get Started @ dev.mendeley.com
10. ReaderMeter.org
13. REPUTATION METRICS
14. •1,000,000 people using Mendeley •120M papers uploaded •1000 API keys to developers Today…
15. 1,000,000 people are using Mendeley! University of Cambridge Stanford University MIT Imperial College London University of Oxford Harvard University University of Michigan University College London University of California at Berkeley Sao Paulo University University of Edinburgh Cornell University Princeton University RWTH Aachen Columbia University Max Planck Society University of Cologne Yale University University of Wisconsin University of Florida
16. Select relation: supports refutes complements uses same method ... Result: A human-curated, constantly evolving semantic article database
17. www.mendeley.com william.gunn@mendeley.com